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Apps Like Mandarin for iPhone and iPad

Search words, translate, and learn

Look up Chinese words with English or pinyin input. Search in both English-to-Chinese and Chinese-to-English directions. Support for traditional and simplified characters. Includes a database of several thousand words.

by Christian Lehner★ 4.01 ratingsEducationFreeData updated 2026-09-08

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